The Squeeky-Clean English band Keane ("Hey, why don't we go..") needed a video director for the new album and they chose..the writer Irvine Welsh, the drugs/rock/death famous for the book Trainspotting.

"It's about a guy who is walking along the beach trying to find the error of his ways. It's a pretty weird piece and we all end up dead in it." (Via The Sunday Mail)

Shari Goldhagen talking about her former media journalist career before she wrote Family and Other Accidents:

Q: You bill yourself as a former "celebrity stalker," having worked for The National Enquirer, Life and Style and Celebrity Living. What's been your craziest adventure, and which was the most challenging?

A: Once Britney Spears gave me the finger. That’s kind of the highlight of my journalistic career right there.

Now I can get my head around that one.